Glastian was born in Grand Hamlet in Elwynn Forest. His father was a swordsmith and his mother a weak mage. He had two younger brothers, Tertricus and Nikolas, twins that he was eight years elder. Glastian took up the trade as a smith at the age of ten, and worked as such, and also learned how to wield weapons until he was seventeen. His family was butchered in the First War, and he fled as a lone survivor of his kin. He would return to Grand Hamlet, however, for his father taught him rashness and stubborness, and so home to him was always the town that would later be called Darkshire.